moyrn

Manx

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish muirn (“high spirit, ardour”),[1] cognate with Irish muirn and Scottish Gaelic mùirn.

Pronunciation

Noun

moyrn f (genitive singular moyrn, no plural)

  1. pride
    Yiow moyrn lhieggey
    Pride will have a fall
    Cha vel eh çheet jesh da moyrn, dy yannoo red erbee ta laccal leshtal
    It does not become pride to do anything which needs an excuse
    Cha dennee rieau yn voyrn feayraght
    Pride never felt the cold

Derived terms

  • moyrnagh

Mutation

Mutation of moyrn
radical lenition eclipsis
moyrn voyrn unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020), Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 356
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